February 21, 2002 - Reading DTDs with JavaScript

When you read a DTD with JavaScript, entity references are not substituted by their values from the DTD. Instead, their values get loaded as children of the entity references. Try loading mydvd7.xml. The alert box below shows the DOMDocument tree. Notice that the entity references are still intact. What happened is that April is now a child of &month;, and John Smith is now a child of &preparedby;.